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We introduce the task of dense captioning in 3D scans from commodity RGB-D sensors. As input, we assume a point cloud of a 3D scene; the expected output is the bounding boxes along with the descriptions for the underlying objects. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Dave Zhenyu Chen , Ali Gholami , Matthias Nießner , Angel X. Chang

Image captioning involves generating textual descriptions from input images, bridging the gap between computer vision and natural language processing. Recent advancements in transformer-based models have significantly improved caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Israa A. Albadarneh , Bassam H. Hammo , Omar S. Al-Kadi

Image Difference Captioning (IDC) aims to generate natural language descriptions of subtle differences between image pairs, requiring both precise visual change localization and coherent semantic expression. Despite recent advancements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yuan Liu , Saihui Hou , Saijie Hou , Jiabao Du , Shibei Meng , Yongzhen Huang

Characters are an important aspect of any storyline and identifying and including them in descriptions is necessary for story understanding. While previous work has largely ignored identity and generated captions with someone (anonymized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Haran Raajesh , Naveen Reddy Desanur , Zeeshan Khan , Makarand Tapaswi

Images generated by text-to-image (T2I) models often exhibit visual biases and stereotypes of concepts such as culture and profession. Existing quantitative measures of stereotypes are based on statistical parity that does not align with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Sepehr Dehdashtian , Gautam Sreekumar , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Image captioning models have lately shown impressive results when applied to standard datasets. Switching to real-life scenarios, however, constitutes a challenge due to the larger variety of visual concepts which are not covered in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Marco Cagrandi , Marcella Cornia , Matteo Stefanini , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Text-to-image (T2I) models have garnered significant attention for generating high-quality images aligned with text prompts. However, rapid T2I model advancements reveal limitations in early benchmarks, lacking comprehensive evaluations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Jingjing Chang , Yixiao Fang , Peng Xing , Shuhan Wu , Wei Cheng , Rui Wang , Xianfang Zeng , Gang Yu , Hai-Bao Chen

Text-to-image (T2I) models offer great potential for creating virtually limitless synthetic data, a valuable resource compared to fixed and finite real datasets. Previous works evaluate the utility of synthetic data from T2I models on three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zhang Xiaofeng , Aaron Courville , Michal Drozdzal , Adriana Romero-Soriano

Generating visually grounded image captions with specific linguistic styles using unpaired stylistic corpora is a challenging task, especially since we expect stylized captions with a wide variety of stylistic patterns. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Kanzhi Cheng , Zheng Ma , Shi Zong , Jianbing Zhang , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

Current text-to-image (T2I) benchmarks evaluate models on rigid prompts, potentially underestimating true generative capabilities due to prompt sensitivity and creating biases that favor certain models while disadvantaging others. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Haosheng Gan , Berk Tinaz , Mohammad Shahab Sepehri , Zalan Fabian , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Popular metrics used for evaluating image captioning systems, such as BLEU and CIDEr, provide a single score to gauge the system's overall effectiveness. This score is often not informative enough to indicate what specific errors are made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Ming Jiang , Junjie Hu , Qiuyuan Huang , Lei Zhang , Jana Diesner , Jianfeng Gao

Image captioning evaluation remains a significant challenge, as vision-language models evolve toward more challenging capabilities such as generating long-form and context-rich descriptions. State-of-the-art evaluation metrics involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Gonçalo Gomes , Bruno Martins , Chrysoula Zerva

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation have led to impressive visual results. However, these models still face significant challenges when handling complex prompt, particularly those involving multiple subjects with distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Lifeng Chen , Jiner Wang , Zihao Pan , Beier Zhu , Xiaofeng Yang , Chi Zhang

Image captioning has long been a pivotal task in visual understanding, with recent advancements in vision-language models (VLMs) significantly enhancing the ability to generate detailed image captions. However, the evaluation of detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Qinghao Ye , Xianhan Zeng , Fu Li , Chunyuan Li , Haoqi Fan

Compositionality is a critical capability in Text-to-Image (T2I) models, as it reflects their ability to understand and combine multiple concepts from text descriptions. Existing evaluations of compositional capability rely heavily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xindi Wu , Dingli Yu , Yangsibo Huang , Olga Russakovsky , Sanjeev Arora

3D dense captioning aims to generate multiple captions localized with their associated object regions. Existing methods follow a sophisticated ``detect-then-describe'' pipeline equipped with numerous hand-crafted components. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Sijin Chen , Hongyuan Zhu , Xin Chen , Yinjie Lei , Tao Chen , Gang YU

Recent advances in retrieval-augmented models for image captioning highlight the benefit of retrieving related captions for efficient, lightweight models with strong domain-transfer capabilities. While these models demonstrate the success…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Wenyan Li , Jiaang Li , Rita Ramos , Raphael Tang , Desmond Elliott

The text-to-image (T2I) personalization diffusion model can generate images of the novel concept based on the user input text caption. However, existing T2I personalized methods either require test-time fine-tuning or fail to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Xiao Guo , Manh Tran , Jiaxin Cheng , Xiaoming Liu

Image captioning has made substantial progress with huge supporting image collections sourced from the web. However, recent studies have pointed out that captioning datasets, such as COCO, contain gender bias found in web corpora. As a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Ruixiang Tang , Mengnan Du , Yuening Li , Zirui Liu , Na Zou , Xia Hu

While there have been significant gains in the field of automated video description, the generalization performance of automated description models to novel domains remains a major barrier to using these systems in the real world. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 David M. Chan , Austin Myers , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , David A. Ross , Bryan Seybold , John F. Canny